Milgrom
Milgrom is a surname derived from the Yiddish word for pomegranate (:yi:מילגרוים, מילגרוים, Milgroim) and may refer to: * Al Milgrom, Allen "Al" Milgrom (born 1950), American comic book writer * Felix Milgrom (1919-2007), Jewish Polish-American microbiologist * Jacob Milgrom (1923-2010), Jewish Biblical scholar * Lionel Milgrom, British chemist and homeopath * Marcia Milgrom Dodge, an American director, choreographer and writer * Mordehai Milgrom (born 1946), Israeli physicist * Naomi Milgrom, Australian business owner * Paul Milgrom (born 1948), American economist See also * Milgram {{surname, Milgrom (Milgrim) Yiddish-language surnames Jewish surnames ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Paul Milgrom
Paul Robert Milgrom (born April 20, 1948) is an American economist. He is the Shirley and Leonard Ely Professor of Humanities and Sciences at the Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, a position he has held since 1987. He is a professor in the Stanford School of Engineering as well and a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Research. Milgrom is an expert in game theory, specifically auction theory and pricing strategies. He is the winner of the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, together with Robert B. Wilson, "for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats". He is the co-creator of the no-trade theorem with Nancy Stokey. He is the co-founder of several companies, the most recent of which, Auctionomics, provides software and services for commercial auctions and exchanges. Milgrom and his thesis advisor Wilson designed the auction protocol the FCC uses to determine which phone company gets what cellula ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Al Milgrom
Allen L. Milgrom (born March 6, 1950) is an American comic book writer, penciller, inker and editor, primarily for Marvel Comics. He is known for his 10-year run as editor of ''Marvel Fanfare''; his long involvement as writer, penciler, and inker on ''The Spectacular Spider-Man, Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man''; his four-year tenure as ''West Coast Avengers'' penciller; and his long stint as the inker of ''X-Factor (comics), X-Factor''. He often inks Jim Starlin's work. Milgrom is the co-creator of DC superhero Firestorm (character), Firestorm. Early life Al Milgrom grew up in Detroit, Michigan and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1972."Bullpen Bulletins," Marvel Comics cover dated July 1979. Career Milgrom started his comics career in 1972 as an assistant for inker Murphy Anderson. During that period, Milgrom contributed to Charlton Comics' ''Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves'', ''Star*Reach'', and comics published by Warren Publishing and Atlas/Seaboard, b ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Naomi Milgrom
Naomi Milgrom (; born ) is an Australian businesswoman and philanthropist. Her private company ARJ Group Holdings owns women's clothing retailers Sportsgirl, Sussan and Suzanne Grae. Life and business career Milgrom was born in Melbourne, one of four children born to art collectors and retailing magnates Marc and Eva Besen. Her maternal grandmother Faye Gandel, "a Polish seamstress who spoke only broken English", opened a small lingerie store in 1939. Her father, a Jewish refugee from Romania, arrived in Australia in 1947 at the age of 23. She is the niece of billionaire property developer John Gandel. Milgrom grew up in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda. She attended Mount Scopus Memorial College and Firbank Girls' Grammar School. She later studied languages at Monash University and also attended the University of New South Wales. She worked for four years as a special education teacher in Sydney, helping autistic and schizophrenic children with language problems. She then ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marcia Milgrom Dodge
Marcia Milgrom Dodge is an American director, Choreographer and stage writer. After working in regional theatre, Dodge directed and choreographed her first Broadway production, a revival of ''Ragtime'' in 2009. The production received four Helen Hayes Awards in 2010, including one for Best Director, and received 7 Tony Award nominations including one for Dodge for Best Director of a Musical. Early years Dodge was born in Detroit, Michigan, grew up in Southfield, Michigan and attended Vandenberg and Adlai Stevenson Elementary Schools and Birney Junior High graduating from Southfield-Lathrup High School in 1973. As a child, she took dance lessons at the Julie Adler School of Dance in Oak Park, Michigan. She is the daughter of Myron and Jacqueline Milgrom, and her sisters are Carole Lesser, Paula Milgrom and Marianne Milgrom Bloomberg. Dodge received her degree in Speech Communication and Theatre at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbour, graduating in 1977. Upon graduation, Dodge m ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mordehai Milgrom
Mordehai "Moti" Milgrom is an Israeli physicist and professor in the department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. Biography He received his B.Sc. degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1966. Later he studied at the Weizmann Institute of Science and completed his doctorate in 1972. In 1981, he proposed Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) as an alternative to the dark matter and galaxy rotation curve problems. Milgrom suggests that Newton's Second Law be modified for very small accelerations. In the academic years 1980–1981 and 1985–1986 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Before 1980 he worked primarily on high-energy astrophysics and became well-known for his kinematical model of the star system SS 433. page 5 oarXiv.org preprint/ref> Recent findings In 2022, a study about an astronomical observation was published that might provide evidence of MOND. Specifically, there is an uneven distribu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Felix Milgrom
Felix Milgrom (12 October 1919 – 2 September 2007) was a Polish American immunologist who was State University of New York Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He is best known for the development of a simple test for syphilis that could be performed on a drop of dried blood. Biography Milgrom was born in Rohatyn, Poland in 1919. Initially a student at the University of Lwow, he earned a medical degree from the Wrocław Medical University in 1946, becoming a docent in 1951. He taught at the Wrocław Medical University and led the microbiology department at the Medical University of Silesia. He joined the Department of Microbiology at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in 1958. He was the chairman of the Department of Microbiology at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences from 1967 to 1985. Milgrom was named a SUNY Distinguished Professor ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jacob Milgrom
Jacob Milgrom (February 1, 1923 – June 5, 2010) was a prominent American Jewish Bible scholar and Conservative rabbi. Milgrom's major contribution to biblical research was in the field of cult and worship. Although he accepted the documentary hypothesis, contrary to the classical bible critics, he traced a direct line of development from the Priestly Code (P), to the Holiness Code (H), to the cultic innovations of Ezekiel, to the cultic writings of the Dead Sea sect and finally to Jewish law (halacha) of the Mishnah and Talmud. Best known for his comprehensive Torah commentaries and work on the Dead Sea Scrolls, he also published extensively on the Book of Ezekiel. Biography Jacob Milgrom was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1923. He studied at Brooklyn College and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City. In 1948, he married Jo Berman, also a biblical scholar. They had four children. Academic career Jacob Milgrom spent most of his career at the University ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lionel Milgrom
Lionel R. Milgrom is a British chemist and homeopath who has been accused of being a proponent of pseudoscience. He is a former faculty member at Imperial College London, and a former senior lecturer in inorganic chemistry at Brunel University. He worked as a chemist with expertise in porphyrins for more than twenty years, after which he trained in homeopathy because he was impressed at how effective homeopathy appeared to be for treating his partner's pneumonia. Milgrom is also the founder of the company PhotoBiotics, a spinoff from Imperial College London, which pioneers a form of light-activated targeted cancer therapy. He has claimed that quantum entanglement Quantum entanglement is the phenomenon that occurs when a group of particles are generated, interact, or share spatial proximity in a way such that the quantum state of each particle of the group cannot be described independently of the state of ... explains how homeopathy works, a claim that has been criticized as "pa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Milgram
Milgram is a surname derived from the Yiddish word for pomegranate (מילגרוים, Milgroim) and may refer to: * Arthur Milgram (1912–1961), American mathematician ** R. James Milgram (born 1939), American mathematician, son of Arthur * Stanley Milgram (1933–1984), Yale psychologist ** Milgram experiment, his most famous study * Goldie Milgram (born 1955), American reconstructionist Rabbi and author * Anne Milgram (born 1970), former Attorney General of New Jersey; head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration since 2021 * Maureen Milgram Forrest, the founder chair and current chair, Leicesterherday Trust, Leicester See also * Milgram & Company Ltd., a Canadian logistics company * Babuška–Lax–Milgram theorem, in mathematics * Lax–Milgram theorem * Lions–Lax–Milgram theorem, in mathematics * Milligram The kilogram (also kilogramme) is the unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), having the unit symbol kg. It is a widely used measur ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pomegranate
The pomegranate (''Punica granatum'') is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub in the family Lythraceae, subfamily Punicoideae, that grows between tall. The pomegranate was originally described throughout the Mediterranean Basin, Mediterranean region. It was introduced into Spanish America in the late 16th century and into California by New Spain, Spanish settlers in 1769. The fruit is typically in season in the Southern Hemisphere from March to May, and in the Northern Hemisphere from September to February. As intact sarcotestas or juice, pomegranates are used in baking, cooking, juice blends, meal garnish (food), garnishes, smoothies, and alcoholic beverages, such as cocktails and wine. Pomegranates are widely cultivated throughout the Middle East and Caucasus region, North Africa, north and tropical Africa, Iran, Armenia, the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, the drier parts of Southeast Asia, and the Mediterranean Basin. Etymology The name pomegranate derives from medie ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yiddish-language Surnames
Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably Mishnaic) and to some extent Aramaic. Most varieties of Yiddish include elements of Slavic languages and the vocabulary contains traces of Romance languages.Aram Yardumian"A Tale of Two Hypotheses: Genetics and the Ethnogenesis of Ashkenazi Jewry".University of Pennsylvania. 2013. Yiddish is primarily written in the Hebrew alphabet. Prior to World War II, its worldwide peak was 11 million, with the number of speakers in the United States and Canada then totaling 150,000. Eighty-five percent of the approximately six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust were Yiddish speakers,Solomon Birnbaum, ''Grammatik der jiddischen Sprache'' (4., erg. Aufl., Hambu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |